The McCook tribune. (McCook, Neb.) 1886-1936, 1887-01-13
EDUCATIONAL COLUMN.
CONDUCTED By
AMY AVERY AND MAY CLARK.

statement was noticed: la Fayette sinned
the dissertation of Independence
Chief Justice Waite, Of the United States
Supreme Court, is the first chief justice to
reach the position of eligibility to retirement.
The ninth grade commenced the study of
physical geography, last Monday. We are
pleased to see them taking SO much interest
in the study.
The youthful idea of school has many il
lustrations: Where are you going?' 10
school," What do you so forT' ITO wait
for school to let out"
The exercises which were to take place,
next Friday afternoon, in Miss McNamara's
room, will necessarily be postponed OH &C
count of the illness of the teacher.
The Teachers State Reading Circle" did
not meet, last Monday evening, as they an
ticipated. The sickness of two or three of
the members having been the cause.
Professor" said a graduate, trying to be
pathetic at parting, Il am indebted to you
for all l know" "Pray don't mention such
a triie," was the not very flattering reply.
There is a disposition Oh the part of all the
pupils to do their best to learn. Many, if
not most of them, having been for q very
long period without school, our rules will
necessarily be more rigid.
Mrs. Smith, teacher of the West McCook
primary school. wa unable to attend to her
usual duties, last Monday, having been de-
tanned at home by ~indispositiOn. Her pupils
were dismissed for the day.
Miss Daisy Hammond, who has been at
tending school at this place, was called away
on account of the severe illness of her broth
er, j. H. Hammond, who has been teaching
school at Stoughton, this state.
The many friends of Miss Anna McNa-
mara, teacher in the Primary Department,
will be panied to hear of her being confined
to her room by an attack of typhoid fever.
Miss Lou Clark is taking her place.
Two more contributions have been made
a piece of Gypsum, from the stone at the
entrance of the Garden of the Gods" also
a piece of Fools Gold" from Colorado
Springs.
The school board has kindly placed a
very handy little bookcase in Miss M%urphy's
room and also in Miss McNamara'S room.
They are very pretty and useful articles,
but we think q coat of paint would help them
materially.
An interesting series OF spelling matches
are being held in the city of Huron, Dakota,
the latest being a strife between the Presby-
terrain and Methodist churches. At the close
OF this spelling, the Baptists challenged the
Presbyterians to a contest in two weeks.
Dr.. Edward Brooks, widely known as ali
author, and for the last quarter of a century
one of the foremost educators of Pennsyl-
of THE Florida Chautauqua" at De Funiak
Springs, in February next, and will probably
accept.
The following letter is from Rev. E. j.
Hall, who is teaching at Pleasant Ridge,
town. l, range %:
The district was organized in the latter
part of the fall, and my services were secur-
ginning on the 22d day of December, 1886.
We have no regular school house, but use as
such. a small frame building, 10X12. The
number of pupils enrolled is 20. The aver
age daily attendance is Is. With very little
hardness. and as little absence as can be
avoided. Our text books, excepting the
readers, are not uniform"
The State Journal says the following, re-
garding w. w. w. Jones. our former school
superintendent. and Geo. B. Lane, our pres
est superintendent:
THE six years term that Hon. w. w. w.
Jones has served as superintendent of pub
lie instruction has beeen well occupied by |
that energetic and skillful educator in per-
fecting our common SchOO system and har-
mOniZing the several departments thereof
into 4 symmetry and perfection that was for
years wanting in its organization. The work
he has done in putting i'll the connecting
links between the common and high schools
and the university is bearing excellent fruit,
and will be his pride and his monument. He
was an experienced educator before he was
raised to the chief place i'll the ranks, and he
has used that experience with great tact and
skill. The people of Nebraska owe him a
debt for his services that should be fully and
freely acknowledged"
Hon. George &. Lane, the recently elected
superintendent of public instruction, is a
gentleman who has been well known in ed
ucational circles in the state for years, and
later having been brought into more general
prominence through his most successful work
as superintendent of the census of 1885. Mr..
Lane was born in E%ppingham, n. H., in 1S43.
He graduated from Dartmouth college in
1867, and has for twenty years been in educa-
tional work. He moved to Nebraska in 1870, |
having been connected with the educational
interests of this state ever SINCE resigning
the Superintendency of the Omaha schools
to take charge of the last census. AT differ
times his work has taken him beyond
the borders of the state, but never for such
length of time as to cause him to lose his
citizenship or his rights as a Nebraskan. Mr..
Lane served through the war of the rebellion
as a private, enlisting early III the struggle,
in the Fifteenth New Hampshire regiment.
He was wounded at the seige of Port Hud-
son, La, the last fort to fall On the opening
of the Mississippi"
The pleasant face of T. c. Stevens will
still be seen in the superintendent Office as
clerk. w. w. w. Jones. the retiring super
intendent, will remain for All indefinite
length of time in the city. As yet he has no
plan laid out for his future operations.